Hot on the heels of our introduction of Elasto Plastic to Shapeways as our latest 3D printing material we are just about ready to introduce yet another material to 3D print with Shapeways.
We are not going to tell you just yet what the new 3D printing material is going to be, nor can we confirm or deny that there are clues in the latest short story by Bruce Sterling, From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter. We can confirm that every letter in the name of the new material can be found in the short story, however the new material has NOT been tested by Bruce Sterling, yet.
You MAY be able to see, touch and smell the latest material next week at SIGGRAPH in L.A.
Any guesses?
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Would it be wood ?
Will it be wax?
Will it be sugar?
Will it be chocolate?
Will it be Soylent Green?
mmm… Soylent Strong and Flexible
Soylent Green – too funny… That will come one day, just wait. 3D Printed food you can process at home…
Human skin!
Upsidaisium
Swiss cheese fondue anyone ?
(Or FDM spaghetti printing…)
I’m pretty sure it’s polymimetic alloy 🙂
fingers crossed for… brass!
Anything to make better jewelry.
I second that!
Yes…more pretties. 🙂
I would like to see a chains and earring hooks option 🙂
New materials like brass, titanium, glass, wax or a multi-material would also be great though.
bacon is the new abs!
Coloured elasto plastic?
Shiny plastics?
Stainless steel premium (without the whole bronze thing)?
Real aluminum?
Chrome finish?
And in the category unaffordable:
-Titanium?
-Gold?
“Shapeways Nervous-System”, eh? Embedded wiring? PCB’s?
If its anything other than Adamantium then I don’t really care.
Wow. You guessed it
Cool. I’m working on my 3D Printed arm bones with retractable claws right now!
Might be Mithril. So we can all go to the Middle Earth.
Oooooh, I know what it is! – GPB – That’s all I’m saying!!